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Counting Every Vote

November 2, 2012 By Avi Green

In the late 1960's Alexander Pope's famous saying "To err is human, to forgive divine," got an update for modern times: "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." As the election gets close, there are already … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: election-2012, election-law, voting-machines

A disagreement with Mike Capuano

December 7, 2009 By cos

We got those touchscreen machines all over the country after the 2000 election made a national spectacle of the problems with punch card voting machines, but Massachusetts had its statewide spectacle of the same thing four years earlier, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: capuano, congress, diebold, election-reform, legislation, ma-sen, massachusetts, mike-capuano, rush-holt, senate, touchscreen-voting, voting-machines

Voting malfunction in Clinton?

February 5, 2008 By nodrumlins

Look at the results from Clinton, Mass.: Hillary Clinton: 1,493 Barack Obama: 806 Joe Biden: 510 John Edwards: 47. There is no way Joe Biden got 510 votes in Clinton, or anywhere else in Massachusetts. They use optical scan ballots. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clinton, voting-machines

And so it begins … ID rules, machines cause early voting problems

November 7, 2006 By darkhorse

From The Associated Press via Boston.com:Electronic voting machine problems frazzled voters and election workers in dozens of precincts as the polls opened Tuesday, delaying voters in Indiana and Ohio and leaving some in Florida with little … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: election-day, voter-id, voting, voting-machines

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty

November 6, 2006 By empowerment

Yes, these machines will have a paper trail. The same paper trail that was found woefully inadequate in Ohio's primary election in May. In a damning report prepared by the Election Science Institute for Ohio's Cuyahoga County, nearly 10% of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: diebold, jill-stein, secretary-of-state, voting-machines

Documentary about voting machines

October 31, 2006 By janet444

Here's a link to informatin about "Hacking Democracy," a documentary, to premiere on HBO this Thursday, Nov. 2, about the new voting machines, and their potential problems:http://www.democracy...If, like me, you don't get HBO, don't worry. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: democracy, voting, voting-machines

Galvin Considering Diebold

September 19, 2006 By cos

According to Massachusetts election integrity groups, Galvin's office sent out requests for proposals to voting machine companies only last fall, and narrowed the choices down to three for serious consideration.  For most of this year, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bill-galvin, diebold, galvin, hava, massachusetts, vote-9.19.2006, voting-machines

Controversy over Election Reform Bill

April 14, 2006 By cos

My Post on Daily Kos and MyDD This is the full text of my post as it appears there. Some of the comments on the daily kos post are worth reading, and I also have a poll up there, so do visit the link, read the comments, and vote in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bev-harris, congress, election-reform, nancy-tobi, national, rush-holt, verified-voting, voting-machines

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